Study for the Bagpipe Lesson
1892
- Medium
- oil on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 12.7 × 15.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-139945
This study shows a boy practicing the bagpipe, but for the final version, Henry Ossawa Tanner added a teacher and two more figures. Bagpipe players were common in the French region of Pont-Aven and Concarneau, where Tanner spent his summers in the 1890s. Here, he used bold colors and loose brushwork to capture the scene. Tanner entered a finished version in the annual Paris exhibition, but it was…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
Registry history
- 1892 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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